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Changes to ES payment timings due to Uniform Start Date alignment
26 Mar 2014: From 2015 onwards, all new agri-environment agreements will have a single start date of 1 January in every year, rather than monthly start dates as... read more
Letter from Own Patterson MP - Moorland basic payment
17 Mar 2014: You can read the response we received from Owen Patterson MP, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to our letter requesting him... read more
George Monbiot meets Cumbrian Commoners head to head
12 Mar 2014: George Monbiot, environmentalist and journalist, addressed members of the Federation of Cumbria Commoners on Friday 7th March at Newton Rigg College... read more
Scheme Development Bulletin Agri-environment in 2014 and beyond
12 Mar 2014: Defra has unveiled more details of the New Environmental Land Management Scheme (NELMS) to start in 2016. Resources will be "constrained".... read more
